Shapes Songs

Submitted by Sue Michiels and Teacher from the U.K.

Idea posted September 27, 2004

Shape Song #1

Sung to "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush"

We can make lots of shapes, lots of shapes, lots of shapes

We can make lots of shapes

So help us sing along.

A triangle has 3 sides, 3 sides, 3 sides.

A triangle has 3 sides.

1, 2, and 3.

A square has 4 equal sides, 4 equal sides, 4 equal sides.

A square has 4 equal sides.

1, 2, 3 and 4.

A rectangle has 4 sides too, 4 sides too, 4 sides too.

A rectangle has 4 sides too.

2 short and 2 long.

A pentagon has 5 sides, 5 sides, 5 sides.

A pentagon has 5 sides.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

An octagon has 8 sides, 8 sides, 8 sides

An octagon has 8 sides,

Now it's time to stop! (My poster has a real stop sign for this verse.)

-Sue Michiels

Shape Song #2

Here's another for slightly older children, sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree"

Oh isosceles, oh isosceles

Two angles have

Equal degrees.

Oh isosceles, oh isosceles

You look just like

A Christmas tree.

-Teacher from the U.K.